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Poppy Sowerby

@poppy_sowerby

3 years

On the way back from the Clapham vigil last night, where women had silently cried in front of rows of police officers, a man made grim kissing gestures at me and my flatmate on the tube and laughed when we looked scared. Everything is connected.

Sarah Everard: Politicians and activists denounce 'unacceptable' police intervention at vigil -...

Activists and politicians denounced police officers after they restrained and arrested women at a vigil held in memory of Sarah Everard yesterday evening.

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“Ok. Wtf do we do ?” sorry this is iconic

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

just had a girl message me on a tutoring platform offering to pay me triple my fee if I sit an IB exam for her. ngl I’m actually quite vexed that people a) have the cheek to offer this and b) actually accept offers like that. anyway drinks on me

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4 years

Just realised that on a job application I had written that I was at Kerrang! magazine when Meatloaf died. It was Lemmy from Motorhead. Meatloaf is still alive. anyway if anyone wants to hire me

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

thinking about 2009, the year my twin and I broke into our Christmas presents two months early and secretly played Mario on our DS Lites every night, then had to act surprised on Xmas day when we opened it. we maintained a twelve year pact of silence. trust me at your peril

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

In an English GCSE tutoring lesson just now, three kids collectively decided to pretend there was a technical issue by typing error messages onscreen. The ruse was foiled when they couldn’t spell “malfunction” I -

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

took my pasta off wayyyyy too early for god’s sake. it’s a hard gnocchi life

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

amazing how throughout the Harry Potter franchise Ginny Weasley maintains the facial expression of someone about to have their passport photo taken

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@poppy_sowerby

6 months

Last month, virtual “gang rapes” took place in the Metaverse. Now will cyberspace and gaming - where social contracts disintegrate - get their reckoning?

UnHerd

@unherd

6 months

‘In a world where players can do almost exactly as they want, why do men keep choosing to rape?’ Video games reveal the darkest fantasies of teenage boys, writes @poppy_sowerby : 👇

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3 years

“now THAT’s self-love,” thinks the lady behind me on the bus who saw me answer my own Instagram poll

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@poppy_sowerby

17 days

Smoking, coke, negroni spagliatos: these are carnations, pearls or a tome in an Early Modern portrait. Whether they are truly used by the sitter is beside the point: they simply gesture towards coveted attributes (betrothal, chastity, learnedness) and so function as pure symbols.

UnHerd

@unherd

17 days

‘The cigarette is so irrevocably a cinematic totem — standing in variously for a gun, a penis, a poison, a panacea.’ The Gen Z smoking trend is an empty aesthetic, writes @poppy_sowerby :👇

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4 years

Shameless plug for my guest appearance on the lovely @meganekenyon ’s iconic podcast The Cheese Plant! Worth listening to just for the moment when Megan realises she’s drowned her herb garden. 🎧🪴

megan kenyon

@meganekenyon

4 years

In the latest episode of The Cheese Plant I am joined by @poppy_sowerby to discuss this week's (mostly) positive headlines! We discuss the Game Stop saga, unfortunate gardening exploits, and getting dressed up to go and get the vaccine. Do tune in! 😎

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4 years

instagram feed vs tagged photos

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

My new neighbour has written us a noise complaint on PWC notepaper, that is all

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

It Happened To Me: I just got trapped in one of those cylindrical doors at PureGym

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

get @beeboileau the credit she deserves! 😤😤 too often student papers get ripped off by nationals - reward journalists for the work they put in!

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@bee__atrice

4 years

The Sun has taken my article () and republished it without giving me any notice or credit! Ironically, I was criticising the over-representation of Gregs compared to women - and they’ve given a Greg all the credit for my work.

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4 years

“If we can regain our confidence, we will find that we have the power to influence how the future turns out.” Usually #adamcurtis films end in a web of crushing ironies, but this seems different. Sober tweet from me, I’ll go back to my gags now

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

real girlbosses enter doors sideways. crab walk or don’t come in

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

UK gov unveiling the three-tiered system today

British Bake Off

@BritishBakeOff

6 years

It’s a cruel, cruel world. Poor Ruby. #GBBO

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3 years

you drove me to this

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@poppy_sowerby

2 months

Right now, Britons are scanning livestreams for suspicious-looking palm trees and offering their Labradors up as detectives. The search for Jay Slater is in its eighth day, but have we all lost our minds? I ask how Conspiracy Brain is upending the bleak banality of human tragedy.

UnHerd

@unherd

2 months

‘The content of these groups is, to say the least, batshit.’ Read @poppy_sowerby on the Miss Marples of middle-aged Facebook: 👇

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

absolutely convinced that the coders behind the hinge “most compatible” algorithm are just year 7s in ICT

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

me: what does prudent mean my 9 y/o tutee: idk I guess if u eat loads of prunes

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

“Was the Les Mis novel also a musical?” - my now ex boyfriend

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@poppy_sowerby

1 month

Jet2 flight or socially conscious train? All-inclusive or “local delicacies”? We tell ourselves that going on holiday is about escapism, but maybe it’s a rehearsal of all our most firmly held snobberies. Not at all related to having had to cancel a holiday this week. 😔

UnHerd

@unherd

1 month

On holiday, everything is political: travel is shot through with the anxieties of class. @poppy_sowerby defends the Brit Abroad: 👇

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3 years

nothing brings out the nastier sides of my character than competing with other girls who look vaguely like me for slightly crap New Look miniskirts in charity shops. move bitch

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

Somewhere in the world is a massive factory exclusively filled with these “argyle print” v-neck sets, which are not only available on every single fast fashion website there is, but also in my own bloody wardrobe. The only thing woollen about this fit is me, because I’m a SHEEP

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

2021 goal: to have the insight, poise and certainty of a royal correspondent on a Channel 5 documentary called “Kate: We Went Through Her Bins”

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

Great reporting by @soph_husk !!

Sophie Huskisson

@soph_husk

3 years

Concern about the impact of transplant staff being diverted to Covid efforts in Ireland, as the country falls in its EU ranking for organ donation One patient, who was first put on the waiting list for a kidney transplant 2 years ago, has been told she could wait another 5 years

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

branching out with my local journalism 🥴🥴🥴🥴

Islington Now

@islingtonnow

4 years

Extinction Rebellion leaves, Save The Trees occupies Dixon Clark Court - @poppy_sowerby tells you why

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

I had to read this so now you do too

Casual UK

@CasualUK_

3 years

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@Simmons__ fewer

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3 years

the woman behind me on the bus who’s watching an instructional video on bongo playing on MAX VOLUME WITHOUT HEADPHONES woke up and chose violence

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4 years

me and the gals queueing outside Brandy Melville in 2013

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

To the man living downstairs ✍️ : why are you so bloody loud you said you lived alone and I can always hear shouting. (not) allowed shut the fuck up

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

at 7:10pm the cardboard set collapses, enter Claudia and Tess stage right as a glitter ball descends. Tonight Boris is doing the cha-cha with Anton du Beke,

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

sign sign sign!! it takes ten seconds and just IMAGINE if the government *did something* about sexual violence and we didn’t just accept r*pe culture as part of the reality of being a woman. <3

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

Sorry but “foot asylum” has to be the worst shoe shop name out there

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

what I yell every morning when awoken by a pigeon

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

sick in my mouth.. Garamond close your ears </3

Joanna Lonergan

@JoannaMLonergan

4 years

HARSH WRITING ADVICE: 12pt Times New Roman >>>>>>

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@poppy_sowerby

1 month

you know who you are

UnHerd

@unherd

1 month

‘I know of a few insufferable “witches” — inevitably girls with tarot tattoos and ketamine habits — who appropriate a chic new brand of paganism.’ The astrology addicts are an irritating cliché, writes @poppy_sowerby : 👇

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

saying “in THIS heat?” with a look of mild offence is an acceptable reply to any statement, and I will not stop

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@poppy_sowerby

4 months

get outta my bog

UnHerd

@unherd

4 months

‘Modern dating culture is a bog haunted by ideological ghouls.’ @poppy_sowerby asks: has politicising our sex lives made anything any better? 👇

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

BBC One segment on Storm Christophe: “it’s a real smörgåsbord of weather, none of it too tasty mind you”. mmm

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

@JamesFlanderss @JoannaMLonergan not to pile on here but I do think it’s a bit sly to be quibbling with this particular thing in the context of the immense grief and shock happening rn

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

looking to speak to #Islington individuals or groups trying to make the streets safer for women! pls dm me, would love to chat for an article :)

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

I’m moving to London in two weeks which means sadly Elizabeth II has to go. only room for one kween in this town amirite haha high five me bro

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

I’m worried that when I finally see my friends again it’ll be like that episode of Sex and the City where a pregnant woman tries to do a striptease at a party to relive her youth and is sent back to Connecticut in a taxi

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

are you paying rent on a flat/house that’s empty because you went home over Xmas and couldn’t come back? considering a rent strike/struggling to pay? dm me #journorequest :)

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

genuinely horrified that almost a year ago we were all on Houseparty

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@poppy_sowerby

2 years

Go and see it for god’s sake!!!

As If

@productionsasif

2 years

So thrilled with this brilliant brilliant review in TheatreReviews by @poppy_sowerby . "The only downside was being subjected to the belly laughs of an entire, uplifted, room."

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

@JamesFlanderss @JoannaMLonergan yes but everyday harassment is very much a symptom and keystone of rape culture; trying to dismiss that, from the perspective of every woman I know who’s dealt with this, seems a bit wet. just my thoughts 💭

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

thought for the day: why do characters in teen movies have to wear thick eyeliner and waistcoats to “rock concerts”? and side fringes?? and VO5!? like it’s not how they normally dress but they dress like that for the occasion???

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@poppy_sowerby

2 months

Why women love monsters - namely, sexy minotaurs. Thank god someone’s doing the work!

UnHerd

@unherd

2 months

‘These “men” can probe you, tear you open, batter you about — but never chastise, patronise or lead you on.’ Is this what women really want? Read @poppy_sowerby on monster smut: 👇

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

wearing coal-tar, engine-oil, beer-stain body wash just to feel something: I smell like praxis

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

found an old business card for a ‘holistic hairdresser’ in a secondhand book and I have questions.. like, “a short back and sides and a palm reading pls Alison thanks”

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@poppy_sowerby

1 year

my jaw is on the floor

Katie Morley

@KatieMorley_

1 year

Hands up if you like a PLOT TWIST 🙌🏻 This week’s KMI column is one of the most shocking for a while… @Telegraph

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@poppy_sowerby

2 years

just read it okay

sarah haque

@sarahsjahan

2 years

In what is my favourite piece I’ve ever written, I wrote an essay about all-girls schools, their feral warmth and chaos, and growing up as good little misogynists for ⁦ @The_Fence_Mag ⁩

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3 years

@JamesFlanderss @JoannaMLonergan well.. piss on our flames by all means but we’re gonna keep em burnin I’m afraid 🔥

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

@nationalrailenq @GWRHelp @jessepengting @womacckk We’ve all made up, cheers for the water @GWRHelp ! #WAP 🍷

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

@nationalrailenq @GWRHelp I’m stuck with two mortal enemies on a train from Reading, any news on when Paddington will reopen? Cannot express how much I want to escape these people thotz and prayers 🙏 @jessepengting @womacckk

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1 year

MARTIN, MAGGIE, AND ME | Vanity Fair | June 2010

In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the author recalls his 1970s conquest of London's ink-stained thickets, some disastrous "research" with Martin Amis at a New York bordello, and encounters...

archive.vanityfair.com

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

@sabrinasfm1 u can always say “beep beep” and hang up if it goes wrong!! 🥸

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

@cescagath my god

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4 years

“The Worst Guy loves #culture not for its artistic merit, but for its ability to affirm his own masculinity”... the way this hits I-

Polly Smythe

@pollysmythe

4 years

i wrote for @VICEUK about what our obsession with spotting dating 'red flags' can tell us about desire and post-MeToo-feminism

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3 years

@TomoLovesNature @meganekenyon

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

Do you think Gen Z is more nostalgic than the generations before it? (In terms of fashion, music, film etc) Has the chaos of modernity driven teens to imagine happier pasts? Also *please* feel free to dm me with any more thoughts on this, so I can pick ya brains! #JournoRequest

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2 years

@meganekenyon lmao patronising as fuck

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3 years

@nationalrailenq @GWRHelp @jessepengting @womacckk safe my g keep it real

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@Simmons__ scotlaaaaand

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@sabrinasfm1 holding you to this 4eva now

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@lhendersonchild national pride Laura

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@helanah_ @AvantiWestCoast thoughts and prayers

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

seeking a pro-Scottish independence interviewee for a casual chatty podcast. slide in to my dms/pls rt! X

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@jeevanravindran @bbcasiannetwork woweee this is sick! congrats ✨✨

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3 years

@Simmons__ SCOTLANDDDD

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3 years

@soph_husk Woooo back in Angleterre 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

@TheIslington Hi! I'm a freelance journalist covering Canonbury - drop me a message if you'd like to chat about this! cheers

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

@JFreemanGallery @islingtonnow any time! :)

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@leoni_pepperoni 🥂🥂🥂🥳🥳🥳

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4 years

@meganekenyon a true miracle

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3 years

@taracobham omg well done taz!!!

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@taracobham @myldn u go gal xx

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2 years

@BovillJulian is this a joke

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2 years

@soph_husk @richardaeden karma chameleon babyyyy 🦎

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4 years

@BanDrooks wooo congrats! 👻

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3 years

@meganekenyon fire tweet

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3 years

@taracobham @Sistah_Space @sisterzine yes!!

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2 years

@meganekenyon @lgcplus well done megatron!! 🔥🔥

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3 years

@hansarg 🥺🥺

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@womacckk my most loyal fan 😘

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6 months

@soph_husk finally, some clear messaging

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

@soph_husk this is so brave and beautiful, sending lots of love xxx

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3 years

@lhendersonchild I take that back, pure unadulterated hubris

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@katrosenfield wow thanks!

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@meganekenyon @insidehousing yesss!!

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@hansarg yes!!

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@cescagath oh u mean GSPIJ

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@poppy_sowerby

4 years

*this*! ⁦⁦ @chanajoffewalt ⁩ on how the New York Board of Education has de facto resisted desegregating its schools since the fifties. Excellent on the cycle of white guilt, empty action and passivity.

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@poppy_sowerby

3 years

@emikyreed woweee that’s sick well done!!

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